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Randi Weingarten’s Racial Demagoguery

The union head likens choice to segregation. What would Polly Williams think?

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Jeanne Allen

Aug. 16, 2017 6:53 p.m. ET

Randi Weingarten, the leader of the American Federation of Teachers, has insulted millions of students and families. In a speech at a union conference last month, Ms. Weingarten claimed that the school-choice movement has its roots in 1960s-era racism. Charter schools and vouchers, she asserted, “are only slightly more polite cousins of segregation.”

This is a blatant attempt to rewrite history. The modern education-reform movement was originally propelled by African-Americans and progressives. Fannie Lewis, a Cleveland...